Last updated January 2025
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The purpose of this page is to share Digital Initiatives Group at I-TECH (DIGI), University of Washington (DIGI) approaches HIE security. We created the guidance and resources with our incredible partners, and share them with the aim of strengthening community approaches to securing HIEs. If you use or adapt these resources, we would appreciate you acknowledging DIGI and our partners. We would love seeing how you adapt and use these resources so that we can continue to learn from one another and improve HIE security guidance and improve HIE security guidance. Please connect with us at digit@uw.edu or visit our website. |
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Note: For cases where a communication protocol does not support an encryption layer (eg. LIS01-A2), and is leaving a secure local network, a VPN is a necessity to ensure that the communication happens securely.Herbert Yiga can you link to VPN setup guide - both our own and maybe a AWS-focused tutorial.
Load Balancing
For Central HIE deployment, it is recommended to use load balancing, or more than one server to spread out functionality to not put too much load on any particular server. Here is in-depth documentation for AWS on the topic:
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